Martin Carnoy

Research Interests

How education influences productivity and economic growth, how and why educational systems change over time, why some countries educational systems are marked by better student performance than others, why some countries educational systems are marked by better student performance than others

Bio

Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University School of Education. Prior to coming to Stanford, he was a Research Associate in Economics, Foreign Policy Division, at the Brookings Institution. He is also a consultant to the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNESCO, IEA,
OECD, UNICEF, International Labour Office.

Dr. Carnoy is a labor economist with a special interest in the relation
between the economy and the educational system. To this end, he studies
the US labor market, including the role in that relation of race,
ethnicity, and gender, the US educational system, and systems in many
other countries. He uses comparative analysis to understand how
education influences productivity and economic growth, and, in turn,
how and why educational systems change over time, and why some
countries educational systems are marked by better student performance
than others'. He has studied extensively the impact of vouchers and
charter schools on educational quality, and has recently focused on
differences in teacher preparation and teacher salaries across
countries as well as larger issues of the impact of economic inequality
on educational quality.

Currently, Dr. Carnoy is launching new comparative projects on the quality of education in Latin
America and Southern Africa, which include assessing teacher knowledge
in mathematics, filming classroomsm and assessing student performance. He is also launching major new project to study changes in university financing
and the quality of engineering and science tertiary education in China,
India, and Russia.

Dr. Carnoy received his BA in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.